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Manuscripts of Washington Irving, Accession #6256-aj, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was purchased on 1986 August 13.
The papers contain fragments from Life and voyages of Christopher Columbus , A history of New York , Spanish papers , and The Alhambra and incidental notes preliminary to the published works; notes from travels in England; including a description of an evening with the Duke of Wellington and Lady Caroline Lamb; and a comment on contemporary poetry.